Proverbs 16:11
A
just weight and balance are the Lord's:
all
the weights of the bag are his work.
To evaluate something properly we must
have good judgment. In bible times
scales were instruments that had a weight on one side and a small plate on the
other on which to put a substance and compare it to the weight of the bag. It was called a balance. When the two were even with each other, a
consumer was to feel confident that he purchased that weight of whatever he was
getting.
There were swindlers in those days
that would perhaps remove some stones from the bag and deceive the buyer into
paying for more than they were receiving.
This was an unjust weight. When
we are weighing things in our own lives we must remember that the weights of
the bag are His work. We are capable of
putting too much weight on one thing and disregarding something as less
meaningful than it is really is. By
staying in His Word and having the weight of the Word determine the weight of
everything else, we will have the just balance that gives us a proper weight of
all we face and encounter.
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